Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reducing its silver prices by 10% this week because "raw silver prices have come down." At the same time the new down trend does signal a long overdue end to a two-year boom in raw-material prices that has contributed heavily to the global price spiral...
Although the spiral bacteria, or spirochetes, that cause syphilis were identified in 1905 and have been stained and photographed thousands of times since, they have defied all the efforts of microbiologists to grow them in the test tube. Man is the only natural host of the microbes, called Treponema pallidum, but some animals, notably rabbits and monkeys, can be infected with them. Why then have they proved so resistant to cultivation in glassware...
Further turns in the pathways, further convolutions of the spiral. The people around you seem diminished in stature, their skin pale, their gaze distant. You stop a moment to watch as these college students eddy around you like so many ants in a hill. You are standing in front of the cabinet for Soc Sci 15 and casually pick up a text on behavioral psychology. Graphs of response rates and reinforcements and contingencies stare out at you, but your puzzlement is allayed by the almost tangible presence of laboratory walls enveloping you. A symphonic blend of pigeon cooing fills your...
...wholesale prices in June to an annual rate of 6%, the first less-than-double-digit figure in seven months. But even the usually optimistic Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, points out that farm prices are rising again in July and concedes that a continuing spiral in industrial commodity prices-up 2.2% in June alone-"reveals the seriousness" of continuing inflation. Grove predicts that consumer prices in the second half of this year will shoot up at an annual rate of almost 10%, propelled mostly by a sharp acceleration in wage settlements...
...painting like Landscape (The Hare) is its reduction: the horizon line drawn clean as a wire, yet with an irrational undular flourish; the absurd and soulful hare, like a creature from a comic strip. Its gaze is fixed on what appears to be a rifle ball, ricocheting in a spiral from the gun of a disembodied hunter. The color, too, is unique - the broad planes of earth and sky like a flag, interspersed by echoing flecks of red, or ange and yellow on the body of the hare, in the spiral and up on the horizon. Only Matisse could...